PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced PMP with experience in aerospace, manufacturing, distribution and healthcare seeking to apply my expertise to the next challenge.
• My aerospace & manufacturing experience spans an 18 - year period whereby I have gained a wide range of industry expertise and depth, allowing me to lead and manage diverse programs and teams
• I am accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment and understand the importance of strong decision making to achieve near-term goals, without losing focus on strategic objectives.
• Apply standard project management methods and techniques to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control effort and ensure successful of objectives.
• Translate business requirements into detailed work breakdown structures and actionable plans
• Direct management and accountability for complex projects in application development, IT, business process improvement, cloud migration and facility moves.
• Works directly with executives, managers and business staff to ensure that resources are aligned with company and customer expectations.
• Leader for Six Sigma quality programs and Lean productivity improvements.
• Serve as a scrum master experienced in implementing Kanban, Spiral, Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid project management and release methodologies as required.
• History working with large, established firms as well as with small businesses acting in both strategic & hands-on roles communicating management vision to diverse teams.
• Ability to create trust-based relationships with executives, managers, end-users and vendors to translate business objectives into workable solutions.
• Continuous efforts creating workflows with large, established firms as well as with small businesses require acting in both strategic & hands-on roles in the healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment and distribution sectors.
• Gather and elaborate system requirements from stakeholders and internal guidance bodies.
• Work with stakeholders to transform epics to component user stories; assign story points.
• Manage Scrum flow including evaluation of user stories, iterating product backlog and release planning.
• Guide Sprint planning, conduct daily stand-ups and sprint reviews.
• Utilize MS Project, PPM, Jira or Asana to schedule, allocate resources, plan and control projects
• Utilize Confluence, Jira and Teams as project status radiators.
• Experienced executing projects using direct staff, contract, union and matrixed resources.
• Skilled at managing project scope, budget, schedule, resource demand, costs, and quality.
• Experience working with Business Continuity design and implementation.
• Comfortable having regular contact with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory and contract requirements.
• Prepared and provided regularly scheduled program reviews to leadership.
• Lead regular project control/technical interface meetings.
• Guide the development of materials and delivery of .
• Experienced in vendor management, contract performance review and approval.
• I lead from the front, promote teamwork and maintain a high level of spirit and pride within the project team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Aerospace, Agile, AS/400, Bar Code, Bio, Business Intelligence, Business Requirements, CIO, Consulting, CDRL, Cisco, Change Management, Confluence, CRM, Data Migration, DD250, Disaster Recovery, Distribution, EDI,, Engineering, Entertainment, ERP, FileMaker, FRx, Fulfillment, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), HCFA, Healthcare, HIPAA, Hospital, HyperVisor, Jira, LAN, Long Term Care, Mac OS, MS Access, MS Office, MS Project, Networking, Oracle, PMBOK, PMI/PMP, Scrum, Six Sigma, Slack, Risk Assessment,, TCP/IP, Asana, Confluence, Trello, WAN, Warehouse, Windows

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dominguez Hills, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a portfolio of projects aimed at consolidating four different ERP systems resulting from business acquisitions into a single, harmonized product that supports all divisions in the US and China
• Effort included system design, data migration, modeling, process integration, process improvement, networking and deployment across all functional organizations at six divisions
• Follow-on testing to assure tool locations, parts lists, BOMs, build plans, and inventory were normalized
• Special Six Sigma program or AMP connector seals
• Interactions from C-Level to factory floor for high precision injection molding, precision rollers, fluid power.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements definition, development and implementation of a Synchronous Flow (SM) manufacturing scheduling system as a complementary “bolt-on” to existing manufacturing planning assets
• Effort required careful coordination of stakeholders in Manufacturing, Engineering, Materiel and Quality functions to deliver the product to specification.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis and system design for software simulation of final assembly manufacturing floor
• Coordinated contract software and data deliverables and requirements with company Configuration Management and Air Force Program Office (SPO)
• Successfully managed implementation of the factory simulation software package for the C-17 final assembly line with aggressive schedule constraints
• Effort involved simulating WBS elements relating to aircraft final assembly at the Long Beach plant.

Confidential, Malibu, CA

Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementation of an enterprise-wide hardware initiative to upgrade existing HP Servers at the former Hughes Research Lab.
• Programming improvements to existing systems affecting HR, intellectual property, physical plant and asset management
• Preparation and presentation of project status at Project Management Review (PMR)
• Coordination with stakeholders with respect to project plan, budget, schedule and vendor management.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Retrofit Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the design and implementation of aircraft retrofit kit programs
• Coordinate Master Change Requests with Config Management, Change Boards and Cost Account Managers
• TO validation and DD250 support at Air Force Plant 22
• Weekly briefings to government customer and executive staff at PMR
• Schedule and budget management
• CDRL items & associated deliverables
• Engineering liaison to MIS department
• Coordinated tailored drawing requirements and delivery process for AC-130U

Confidential, Culver City, CA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development of schedule, budget, risk management and resource allocation for all VR program distributions.
• Manage the distribution supply chain for VR systems by coordinating the activities of manufacturing and 3PL vendors that ensure accurate, on-time allocation of hardware
• Manage the Starlight Virtual Reality product roadmap
• Coordinate the digital outreach effort to maintain communications with the Child Life Specialist community to ensure continuing, positive impact of clinical virtual reality
• Maintain relationships with hospital partners who are using - or will use Starlight technical programs
• Coordinate hospital protocol implementation baseline
• Develop and maintain trust relationships with all Disney Team of Heroes technical, administrative and Social Responsibility stakeholders at selected hospitals
• Work closely with Videro Digital Signage vendor supporting the Disney technology installations
• Provide on-site stakeholder coordination and installation supervision for Disney Team of Heroes at hospital sites
• Conduct periodic on-site inspections of Disney Team of Heroes concepts in accordance with the Disney Team of Heroes statement of work
• Oversee the Disney Team of Heroes Support Desk
• Create user guides, detailed tech manuals, work flows and troubleshooting design
• Stand up a dedicated help desk to oversee all tickets generated and maintain accurate dashboards and reports to be shared internally and externally
• Provide technical and administrative leadership to cross-functional teams
• Act as Scrum coach for software needs assessment and contracted software development.

Confidential, Redondo Beach, CA

Responsibilities:

• Maintain point of contact meetings with vendors and project staff
• Conducted a manufacturing review that has removed the majority of custom vendor parts and replaced them with standard parts for a 40% reduction in overall manufacturing cost
• Coordinates internal and external stakeholders to identify interdependencies, conflicts and risks associated with timely project delivery
• Implements project status radiators including automated dashboards and Confluence knowledge bases

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Full lifecycle project management of the enterprise projects portfolio
• Assure that the strategic goals of the Surgical, Urgent Care and Home Health business units are supported
• Plan, execute, monitor and control projects with eye on performance and risk reduction.
• Quarterly budget & goals review
• Execute projects using staff, contract and matrixed resources
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, resource demand, costs, and quality
• Regular contact with internal and external stakeholders including medical directors, providers and hospital staff
• Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards and other project status radiators as required by management
• Continuous contact with Government and private sector customers to assure all reporting requirements are satisfied.
• Monitor adherence to regulatory and contract requirements
• Prepare and provide regularly scheduled program reviews to leadership
• Lead regular project control/technical interface meetings
• Develop policies and implementing procedures
• Guide the development of clinical materials and delivery of clinical
• Ensure delivery of clinical & tech support to providers in the field
• Direct infrastructure expansion and business continuity initiatives including migration of mission - critical servers to Hypervisor and then to AWS EC2
• Multi-year effort to move company from paper surgical notes and dictation to a fully-certified, natural language, 'grab-and-go' electronic medical record (EMR)
• CMS Clinical Quality Improvement program targeting Medicare/Medicaid negative payments
• Billing process improvement for Medicare and Medi-Cal to streamline claims and enhance collections.
• Align MIPS CPIA and NCQA HEDIS measures with clinical systems
• Blended Lean/Six sigma systems review resulting in improved billing accuracy and reduced turnaround
• Migrate in-house applications from physical servers to hypervisor and then to off-site hosting on AWS EC2
• Implement Business Continuity Design and implementation
• Coordinated Three Data Center (2 physical; 1 cloud) and Facility move plans